Cotton-seed delinter



{No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1. .J. J. FAULKNER. COTTON SEED DELINTER.

Patnted Sept. 10, 1895.

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J. J. PAULKNER. COTTON SEED DELINTER. No. 546,280. Patented se e. 10, 1895.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEETCE.

JAMES J. FAULKNER, OF MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO THE STANDARD COTTON SEED COMPANY, OF ARKANSAS.

COTTON-SEED DELINTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 546,280, dated September 10, 1895. Application filed July 9, 1895. Serial No. 556,434. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: rolls placed, as before, with their surfaces in Be it known that I, JAMES J. FAULKNER, a sufiiciently close proximity to prevent the. citizen of the United States, residing at Mempassage of seed between the same and posiphis, in the county of Shelby and State of Tentively actuated, so that all of the series move 5 nessee, have invented certain new and useful in the samedirection. The inclosure formed Improvementsin Cotton-Seed Delinters; and by the rolls is preferably made from eight to I do hereby declare the following to be a full, ten inches in diameter, although it may be clear, and exact description of the invention, varied within large limits, if desired. such as will enable others skilled in the art to My invention is fully described in the drawto which it appertains to make and use the same. ings which accompany and form a part of this My invention relates to improvements in application, in which the same reference-letmachines for treating cotton-seed, and parters refer to the same or corresponding parts, ticularly to improvements in that class thereof and in which known as delinters; and it consists of the Figure 1 represents a central longitudinal :5 improved cotton-seed delinter whose construcsection of my delinter. Fig. 2 represents a tion and arrangement of parts will be hereincross-section thereof. after fully described, and particularly pointed Referring to the drawings, A represents the out in the claims. machine-frame. In this frame are supported In an application for Letters Patent filed in suitable bearings the abrading-rolls B, 20 by me June 13, 1895, Serial No. 552,686, I which are placed with their surfaces in sufi'ihave described acotton-seed delinter in which ciently close proximity to prevent the passage the removal of the lint from the seed was efof seed between the same and so that they fected by the treatment of the seed in an in form a complete circle. Each of the rolls is closure made by a series of positively-actpositively actuated in such a manner that r0 z 5 uated rotating abrading-surfaces placed with 'tation in the same direction of all the rolls is their faces in sufficiently close proximity to secured. The separate rolls may be actuated prevent the passage of seed between the same by separate belts, or a single belt connection and actuated so as to move in one direction. with the power-shaft may be used. In the machine described in said application The seed is fed into the machine at one end So 9 a series of rolls were arranged in the form of of the abrading-rolls through the feed-spout an arc of a circle, and the space between the C, and is discharged from the same at the end rolls was closed by a central delintingother end thereof through the discharge-spout cylinder, the construction being especially D. The valve 01 is used to regulate the disdesignedto permittheformationof amachine charge in accordance with the condition of 5 of great capacity by offering the possibility the seed under treatment. 7 of usinga large number of series ofabrading- In order to insure the passage of the seed rolls around the same central abrading-cylinthrough the machine, I mount upon the cender. A machine of this class is scarcely ecotral shaft an agitator E, the pins of which are nomical when only one series of rolls are arranged in the form of a spiral. This agigo 40 used in connection with the central abradingtator, besides feeding or conveying the seed cylinder, and thusis notfitted for use in places through the machine, serves the further purwhere only a small amount of seed can be pose of constantly forcing the seed against obtained for treatment. I the abrading-surfaces, so as to secure com- The object of my present invention is to plete removal of the lint from the seed by the 5 5 provide a machine in which the same princiabrading-rolls. The abradingrolls rotate at ple of operation is utilized as was utilized in quite a high rate of speed and serve not only the machine described in my prior applicato remove the lint from the sides of the seed, tion referred to, but which shall be much but also to withdraw the lint removed from smaller in its capacity and will be suitable the seed from the inclosure. This is done as [00 50 for use directly in connection with gins. the rolls complete their revolution, the pieces It consists in a circular series of abradingof lint clinging to the abrading-surfaces being drawn out between adjacent rolls. air-current sweeping over the outer surface of the rolls in the casing F draws the lint upward into the exhaust-Flume G and discharges it at some suitable point. The coarse dirt and impurities, while removed from the sur-- face of the rolls by the air-current, are not usually drawn up into the air-flume, but fall out of the casing through the opening H formed in the bottom thereof. WVhile the rolls can thus remove from the inclosure formed thereby such substances as lint and leaves and the like, they are incapable of removing the seed from the inclosure or of injuring the seed in any manner. This is due to the fact that when the rolls are'all caused to rotatein the same direction contiguous faces thereof move in opposite direction, so that the seed which is thrown into the angle formed by the meeting of two rolls instead of being injured by the meeting of the abrading-surfaces is thrown back into theinclosure without being injured in the slightest degree.

An especial feature of advantage in this machine lies in the fact that should any nails, spikes, or other like impurities happen to be fed into the inclosure with the seed no injury will take place to the machine thereby, as the spikes cannot be drawn out between the rolls, but will pass out of the dischargeopening with the cleansed seed.

The operation of my machine is as follows: The seed is fed into the machine through the feed-spout C, is at once thrown against the revolving abrading-surfaces by the agitator E, operating therein, the lint being stripped from the seed and drawn out by the rolls B as they complete their revolution. The seed itself is gradually fed to the discharge end of the machine by the agitator E, and is finally discharged in quantities regulated by'its con.- dition through the discharge-spout D. Before the seed is thus discharged all faces of the same come in contact with the abradingsurface, so that the surfaces of the seed as it is discharged are entirely clean and free from The ing rolls, arranged in the form of a circle to form an inclosure within which the delinting operation takes place, and placed with their meeting surfaces in such close proximity that seed will not pass between the same, and means for causing said rolls to rotate in the same direction, of seed inlet and discharge openings, means for removing the lint separated by the action of the machine, and means for conveying the seed under treatment through the inclosure formed, substantially as described.

2. In a cotton seed delinter, the combination with a series of positively-actuated abrading rolls, arranged in the form of a circle to form an inclosure within which the delinting operation takes place, and placed with their meeting faces in such close proximity that seed will not pass between the same, and means for causing said rolls to rotate in the same direction, of seed inlet and discharge openings, means for causing an air current to sweep over the outer surface of said rolls, and means for conveying the seed under treatment through the inclosure, substantially as described.

3. In a cotton seed delinter, the combination with a series of positively-actuated abrading rolls, arranged in the form of a circle, and placed with their meeting faces in such close proximity that seed will not pass between the same, and means for causing said rolls to rotate in the same direction, of seed inlet and discharge openings, means for causing an air current to sweep over the outer faces of said rolls, and a spiral seed conveyer stationed Within the inclosure formed by the rolls, substantially as described.

4. In a cotton seed delinter, the combination with a series of horizontally-arranged positively-actuated abrading rolls, arranged in the form of a circle, and placed with their meeting faces in such close proximity that seed will not pass between the same, and means for causing said rolls to rotate in the same direction, of a seed inlet opening at one end of the inclosure, a seed discharge opening at the other end thereof, means for causing an air current to sweep over the outer surface of said rolls, and a spiral eonveyer stationed within the inclosure, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES J. FAULKNER.

Witnesses:

R. W. RAMSEY, JOHN HALLUM. 

